Tel Patriq (West Syriac diocese)

Tel Patriq was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church near Melitene (Malatya), attested during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

In this Appendix Michael listed most of the bishops consecrated by the Jacobite patriarchs of Antioch between the ninth and twelfth centuries.

Tel Patriq was a locality near Melitene (modern Malatya), on the west bank of the Euphrates river, in Turkey.

[1] Five eleventh- and twelfth-century bishops of Tel Patriq are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.

Dionysius (1004/30) was taken to Constantinople in 1029 with the patriarch Yohannan VII bar ʿAbdon on the orders of the Byzantine emperor Romanus III Argyrus, and was imprisoned in an attempt to force him to make a Chalcedonian confession of faith.